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The results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll is not good news for the President.

The last Quinnipiac survey is the first major poll to show that the wave of recent scandals hitting the Obama administration are beginning to damage President Obama’s standing with the American people.

According to Quinnipiac, Barack Obama’s job approval rating now stands at just 45 percent, with less than half of voters viewing the president as “honest and trustworthy.”

If we had an honest media, he would be removed from office. If the media were unbiased, he would not even have been elected to begin with.

A 6-year-old kid in Palmer (Springfield) Massachusetts got in deep trouble for showing a toy gun slightly larger than a quarter.

The gun caused a disturbance on a Old Mill Pond Elementary School bus.

Mieke Crane is the mother of the six-year-old kindergarten student who brought the gun on the bus.

She is upset with how her son is being disciplined. She says he had to write an apology letter to the driver, has detention on Tuesday and could be temporarily suspended from the bus.

Next they will probably grill the kid:

Is it loaded?

Do you have permit to carry it?

Did you register the gun?

Does it have an oversized ammunition magazine?

C’mon people - it’s a toy the size of a quarter.

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As it turns out, the panic was reserved for the various adults and authority figures in this case.

Luckily, there was a security camera rolling on the bus and the footage told another story. Kids sit calmly on the bus until one child raises his hand to report the Lego gun. And that was pretty much it.

The 6-year-old's detention was revoked and everyone is happy. For now.

A campaign to force a recall election against Joe Arpaio (pictured) the sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix failed on Thursday after recall organizers said they couldn't collect enough voter signatures to bring the lawman to the ballot again.

Organizers of the recall effort against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio needed to turn in more than 335,000 valid voter signatures by 5 p.m. Thursday to force a recall election.

The recall effort began just weeks after the 80-year-old Republican sheriff started his sixth term in January. His November re-election race marked the second closest contest in his 20-year political career.
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May 30, 2013

The Obama administration’s justification for going after several Associated Press reporters and Fox News’s James Rosen.

The administration was technically right in doing so but they had to go back to the Espionage Act of 1917, passed two months after the United States entered World War I.

The Espionage Act of 1917 has remained on the books and was even amended to cover news media.

Presidents and attorneys general of both parties have been reluctant to use the Espionage Act when secret information has been leaked to the press because they have recognized that it is overbroad.

They have understood ... that government classifies far too many things as secrets, even as it has often failed to protect information that truly needs to stay secret.

Barack Obama and his Justice Department seem to be of a different mind. They have used the Espionage Act of 1917 six times to bring cases against government officials for leaks to the media — twice as many as all their predecessors combined.

But did the Obama administration really find security leaks to justify looking at emails and other documents of reporters from Fox News and Associated Press?

First Keith Oldbermann (pictured) was fired from ESPN Sports. Then he was fired from his MSNBC show Countdown. Next the left-wing political firebrand was fired by Al Gore after doing a show on Current TV.

Oldbermann’s departure from Current was anything but amicable and the two parties ended up suing each other.

In March of this year it was announced that Olbermann settled his $50 million dollar legal claim against Al Gore and Current.

The settlement amount was not made public but has been reported to be about $5 million. That should be enough to keep him in limo drivers for a few weeks. Olbermann can’t drive because of an eye problem caused by an auto accident several years ago.

Jim Treacher of The Daily Caller reported that Olbermann spent last fall talking to all the major networks but he couldn’t get a job.

He even went crawling back to ESPN, and they gave him the brush-off. How humiliating. He deserves every penny he picks out of Al Gore’s pockets.

Hope the money is worth it, Keith. Once it runs out and you can no longer afford oysters at the Atlantic Grill, our offer of an internship at the Daily Caller is still open. You can learn the fundamentals of journalism, which you never bothered with the first time around. We’ll help you get back on your feet.

It took arrogance and a lot of nerve for Olbermann to demand millions from Al Gore help heal the first-degree burns he suffered while burning his last bridge.